Top Ten bad Premier League signings who were actually incredible

10) Albert Ferrer – Chelsea

Albert never got the recognition he deserved. A solid player capable of moments of Spanish inquisition bombing down the wing as this video shows -


9) Seth Johnson – Leeds

Seth Johnson should've been the future of England's midfield. Treated cruelly by injury and by continual cunt Ken Bates, his Leeds tenure still had it's moments of magic.


8) Patrick Kluivert – Newcastle

Everyone either forgets that Kluivert played for the Toon or thinks because he only lasted a year he was shit - far from it, he was magnificient and added flair and quality to the front line not seen since Tino Asprilla had left - look at the tekkers in the below vid.


7) Sergei Rebrov – Spurs

Rebrov was meant to be absolutely amazing like a cheap knock off of Shevchenko - looking back i think it is fair to say Rebrov was actually better value! Had moments of Ukrainian majesty.



6) Eric Tinkler – Barnsley

The greatest South African player ever? Without doubt in my mind. Watch the attempted screamer at 1.03



5)Joe Max Moore – Everton

For an American he was quite good at football - the Landon Donovan of the 1990's. Came to England as the MLS at the time still couldn't understand the concept of a draw.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/1709889.stm

4) Trevor Benjamin – Leicester

Big Trev is a Leicester cult hero and rightfully so - those Leicesterians know their football. He might have only scored one goal in his premiership season with the foxes but him and Akinbyi were an ELECTRIC partnership. Would surely have had more England caps if he hadn't had decided he was Jamaician (despite being born in Kettering?)



3) Neil Redfearn – Charlton

Neil Redfearn, one of the games true greats. It is just unfortunate that he relegated every premiership team he played for. People remember him at Barnsley but his season at Charlton was incredible - he was their top scorer with 10 goals (the same as Ryan Giggs) which isn't bad for a slow old bastard midfielder. Why did he never get an England cap?


2) Stan Collymore – Leicester

A hatrick on his debut with a class volley - the only reason he left Leicester is because of our number 3 Big Trev! They fell out during a reserve game and Stan nearly clobbered him to death in the dressing room. Apart from that incident he was pure gold at Leicester.



and finally our number one.....................................










1)John Barnes - Charlton Athletic

I can hear you laughing from here - in fact i bet you can't even remember him at Charlton. He dropped into a holding midfield role due to his talen..........lack of pace but he added a degree of quality to a basically division one team (Apart from Clive Mendonca who was World Class). I will quote parts of a Charlton Fans blog abour Mr Barnes' tenure - "one of the greatest players to play for Charlton ever", "moments when he would thread through a ball with perfect weight and speed", "He is the first world class player I watched at close quarters", "When Beckham or Giggs had the ball I trembled in fear. I couldn't admire them because I dreaded the damage they could do. I wanted them to fail. I was at the Valley to watch my team and my players and finally for a short period we had a player who surpassed many of these legends in ability, class and demeanour"

He was shit at Celtic though.
http://www.bloggingdaily.com/latest-blogs/charltonathleticblog/viewpost/525_John_Barnes_Charlton_Legend_.html


Thanks for reading and i look forward to your comments!

FB